Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Trapunto & Pinless Curve Blocks - The Something NEW Sampler: Week 4

Maybe you noticed, maybe you didn't, but I'm running a week behind now on this sampler quilt so this week I have the final four blocks to make and I also want to remake Block 2 - The Scraptastic Block. There's some work involved in the remaining blocks so I've decided to put off making Block 7 - Cathedral Windows, to the very end because it looks quite time consuming and I need to do what I can to catch up quickly

This has to be the block I've enjoyed making the most ever!!! I spray basted the layers together - my first time using spray baste and this made it incredibly easy to manage. I hardly used any of the spray - really hardly any, you couldn't even smell the spray in the room, that's how little I used - but the fabrics held fast without pin basting and yet I could easily pull the layers apart when I needed to cut away the excess batting. Having decided to go with the Quilt As You Go (QAYG) option for this block I guess I'll be going that route for the rest of my blocks now too!

Close up detail of front and back

Next up Block 8 - Pinless Curves by Alyssa @Pile O'Fabric
Turns out this block is a continuous Drunkard's Path curve at which I'm well practiced having made a Drunkard's Path quilt previously. I made life more difficult for myself this time by making such a scrappy fabric for the central section, this meant I was cutting then sewing in a curve over LOTS of seams which makes easing the fabric seams together trickier.

And Block 8 lead me straight in to my remake of Block 2 - Scraptastic. I used the cut off sections from the central section of Block 8 and kept adding to them to create a new version of Block 2 (if you're wondering why I'm remaking Block 2 you can read about it here)

And here's the 7 blocks I've created so far

Seeing the blocks together I've now decided that I'm not happy with my Block 4 - Reverse Applique

- potential remake here but might QAYG and see how it looks then before making a final decision.

...hmmm. Your right that when you look at your reverse appliqué block by itself, it's not quite... But I think all together with the others it works! All some echoey squiggly scribble quilting, maybe in different coloured threads and it will totally blend. I love your remake of scraptastic by the way. Much better fit.Your doing amazing with this project!E xx

Thanks Erin - you're so right, that block just doesn't fit with the others, possibly the quiltng can save it but maybe not. I'll reserve judgement for now but if I'm not happy with it in the end then it's going! :)

When I first did a Drunkard's Path quilt I said "never again" but I've since learnt to never say never and I when I realised what this block involved I thought "here we go again!". They're not difficult, just fiddly as you say - you'd be able to do it no problem. More ticks in the boxes! :)

Thanks Cassie, it's very much a work in progress as we're given the pattern for each block you realise that maybe something you did earlier doesn't quite fit and then there's a bit of reworking. Well that's how it is for me but I'm starting to get somewhere with it now. Thanks for dropping by :)

Go for it Wendy - I'm glad to hear it's worth me adding it to my posts. I thought it might help people to follow WIPs a bit, especially when I have so many going on at one time and if people drop by half way through one they wouldn't have a clue what was going on! :)

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